The FBI has been conducting a preliminary investigation into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for alleged ties to foreign powers, NBC News reported.
Manafort came under intense scrutiny earlier this year for work for pro-Russian forces in the Ukrainian government.
The New York Times found his name in a secret ledger that designated $12.7 million in undisclosed payments as part of what it described as an “illegal off-the-books system” conducted by the political party of Ukraine’s former president.
Manafort also was found to have helped orchestrate an American lobbying effort on behalf of the country without registering as a foreign agent, as required by law.
Manafort, who resigned from Trump’s campaign in August, told NBC that “none of it” was true. “There’s no investigation going on by the FBI that I’m aware of.”
But The New York Times reports that the FBI has looked into Manafort’s “ties with a kleptocratic government in Ukraine — and whether he had declared the income in the United States — and not necessarily on any Russian influence over Mr. Trump’s campaign.”
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